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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't it be nice if documentation used the words index and offset consistently?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that they both are contextual and can mean any position in a list/array. The starting index or starting offset is generally zero, but could be one, depending on the language used.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i wonder why people haven’t made a language that starts indexing at 2 yet. maybe some day

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe this could be a feature in brainfuck or COBOL.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dreamberd starts array indexing at -1 instead of 0 or 1.

https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

what a beautiful language

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Aren't those two the same thing? At least in C-style arrays, which might not be how they're handled under the hood, but is at least how most languages present it to the programmer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yes they are presented in the programmer wrong. The first thing in memory should have offset 0 and index 1

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

in my understanding offset is technically the "relative index", or how much you have to go further